Can I just whack a quieter fan on the bloody thing, or do I need one of them fancy water-cooled gubbins? I mean, at the moment the thing whirs away, no louder than a normal PC, but it's well annoying.
ANyone got any tips on how to turn the volume down on it?
― Johnney B, Sunday, 3 October 2004 15:58 (twenty years ago)
HEY LISTEN,m FIRT GO TO SILENTCOOLING>COM OR SOMETHING AKIN 2 DAT AND GET U A "SILENT CPU COOLER" W/ OR W/O A FAN, THAN U GOT TO GET SOME SILENT CASE FAnZ. ALL WILL COST U LESS THAN 50 DOLLARS. WATER COOLINGIS LOOOUUUUD cuZ OF THE PUMP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11111111111111
― TIMMY TWICE, Sunday, 3 October 2004 16:27 (twenty years ago)
I thought you were talking about it being bright green or something. I am quite upset this thread turned out to be about noise.
― ___ (___), Sunday, 3 October 2004 16:54 (twenty years ago)
getting a new fan can help. CPU/case fans can go bad after a while.
― Lt. Kingfish Del Pickles (Kingfish), Sunday, 3 October 2004 18:19 (twenty years ago)
WATER COOLINGIS LOOOUUUUD cuZ OF THE PUMP!Actually water-cooled PCs don't require a pump. The heat from the CPU causes the water to circulate without a pump, if it's built correctly. I've seen them before, and they are very quiet. My cheapo solution was just to buy a kvm extension cord, and put the whole thing in the closet.
― o. nate (onate), Sunday, 3 October 2004 18:30 (twenty years ago)
Give it a bath - that's what I do when I get too hot. You get hot for a little while, but when you get out, your vessels are open, you feel very cool. So, bath.
― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Sunday, 3 October 2004 20:12 (twenty years ago)
to eliminate the graphic card fan, you can get a copper heatsink apparatus.
― Sir Kingfish Beavis D'Azzmonch (Kingfish), Sunday, 3 October 2004 20:56 (twenty years ago)
Get a Mac. < / snarky> Yeah, right - I don't think I've ever heard a truly quiet Mac - even the so-called quiet G5s are at least twice as loud as my PC.
Anyway, the answer to getting a quiet pc is complicated, but in essence a cool PC is a quiet PC. The main points to consider are:
1: A case with good airflow WITHOUT the need for fans other than on the processor and power supply. You also need to make sure the PC is situated in a cool area with plenty of room behind for heat to escape.
2: HUUUGE 3rd party heatsink on your CPU with a very quiet fan.
3: Quiet power supply.
4: One that many people don't think about: Harddrives where you don’t hear the incessant whine of drives continuously rotating at 7000rpm, and the sound of hard-drives heads clicking. Something like the Seagate Baraccuda.
5: Some kind of Acoustic absorbtion material stuck around the inside of the case.
6: Passive video cards - that is one’s that don’t require a fan.
Remember that water cooling needs a pump, and also a fan to cool the pipes, so is not as quiet as people imagine.
If you don’t need stellar performance, there are CPUs around specifically deisigned with coolness in mind - and there is also the option of UNDER-clocking your CPU so it runs cooler.
― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Monday, 4 October 2004 08:00 (twenty years ago)